© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center Fluent Introductory Training Course

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center Orientation  Agenda for Week:  Training Problem Setup Creating the model: geometry and mesh generation Using the Solver: setup and execution Establish contact with support staff Begin your own CFD project! We recommend doing all Gambit and relevant Fluent tutorials first.

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center Agenda (Day 1) Introduction to Fluent Inc. Introduction to CFD Analysis Introductory Tutorial Solver Basics Lunch Boundary Conditions Turbulence Modelling Tutorial Session

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center Agenda (Day 4) Solver Settings Heat Transfer and Thermal Boundary Conditions Your own Examples (or Tutorials) Lunch Your own Examples (or Tutorials)

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center Support Engineers SalesSupportConsulting Aero/ Auto Chemical/ Process Turbo/ Power Engineers and staff are assigned to industry teams. Each team has their own sales, support, and consulting groups.

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center Fluent Support Online  User Services Center User Services Center Access through fluent.com must be registered user Services Release Information Download Updates Documentation Supported Platforms Defects/Workarounds Presentations Training  ftp files to/from support ftp to ftp.fluent.co.uk log on as anonymous and use address for password cd to incoming/xxx or outgoing/xxx and put files in binary mode. xxx = support team identifier

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center  Attend the annual UGM and: meet with the users and staff of Fluent attend short-courses learn of other Fluent applications presented by users provide input to future development of software  Worldwide User Group Meetings: USA (Manchester NH, MI, CA) typ. Mid-June European Meetings typ. Mid-September through early October Asia-Pacific Meetings typ. Mid-October through early November User Group Meetings

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center FLUENT 6  Fluent 6 Applications: Internal and external automotive flows High speed aerodynamics Rocket flows Turbomachinery Reactor Vessels Cyclones Bubble Columns Mixing tanks Fluidized Beds  Fluent 4.5 Retained for Eulerian/Eulerian or Eulerian/Granular + Heat Transfer Surface pressure distribution in an automotive engine cooling jacket. Instantaneous solids concentration in a riser indicating uniform distribution of catalyst at the riser head.

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center FIDAP  FIDAP Applications: Polymer processing: non- Newtonian flow in extrusion dies Thin film coating flows Biomedical: oxygenators, blood pumps, deforming arteries Semiconductor crystal growth Other metal, glass, and chemical processing problems Example: Pulsatile flow in an artery with a compliant vein graft. u=u(t), sinusoidal inlet velocity rigid wall compliant wall initial mesh rigid artery deforming artery Time history plot of wall shear rate- Deformations cannot be neglected! Velocity contour plot

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center POLYFLOW  FEM solver for laminar, viscous flows for complex rheologies and free surface POLYFLOW Applications: Extrusion, coextrusion, die design Blow molding, thermoforming Film casting, glass sheet forming/stretching, fiber drawing Chemical reactions, foaming Viscoelastic flows (“memory effects”) Inverse Die Design: Determines die geometry based upon desired extruded shape. Requested part shape and calculated die lip shape for a rubber car door seal. Blow molding simulation of a gas tank using the membrane element.

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center Icepak  IcePak is focused on electronics cooling design: Cooling airflow, heat conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer  The user interface and automatic meshing are tailored for applications such as: Cabinet design Fan placement Board-level design Heat sink evaluation Flow pathlines and temperature distribution in a fan-cooled computer cabinet.

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center  Simplifies the design and analysis of ventilation systems  Accurate, quick, and easy-to-use design tool that empowers designers and professionals, without extensive backgrounds in computer applications, to utilize the powers of advanced CFD tools  Optimize your designs or pinpoint problems based on accurate predictions of airflow patterns, thermal conditions, comfort conditions, and/or contamination control effectiveness Airpak

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center  MixSim is a specialized user interface that allows quick and easy set-up of mixing tank simulations.  The tank size, bottom shape, baffle configuration, number and type of impellers, etc. are specified directly.  The mesh and complete problem definition are then automatically created. MixSim  Other features include: Impeller libraries from leading equipment manufacturers Transient sliding mesh, steady-state multiple reference frame models Non-Newtonian rheology

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center  A single, integrated pre-processor for CFD analysis. Geometry creation Mesh generation Mesh quality examination Boundary zone assignment Pre-processor: Gambit

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center  A pre-processor for tet/hybrid mesh generation.  Useful when starting with triangular surface mesh. Pre-processor: TGrid

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center  Separate CD for each product (e.g., FLUENT 6, TGrid, etc.) containing all the manuals for that product.  Three formats available: HTML for general viewing, searching, limited printing Adobe Acrobat PDF for high quality printing of one or many pages Adobe PostScript for high quality printing of one or many pages  A script is included which can (optionally) install the documentation. Documentation CD’s Fluent 5 CD Documentation html homepage

© Fluent Inc. 5/10/ Introductory FLUENT Notes FLUENT v6.0 Jan 2002 Fluent User Services Center Training Evaluation  Evaluation forms are provided.  Your feedback helps us improve our training material and methods.